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Keeping both hands on the wheel and texting a message on a handheld device cannot occur at the same moment in time.

After clearing its first legal hurdle in U.S. bankruptcy court, the proposed merger between truck stop operators Flying J Inc. and Pilot Travel Centers is about to undergo a federal antitrust review.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission should create position limits on energy contracts across all trading platforms to protect the trucking industry from excessive speculation in oil futures, a representative of American Trucking Associations testified at recent CFTC hearings.

Faced with capacity and maintenance limitations and inadequate revenues, states are taking advantage of newer bonding and federally guaranteed loan programs to help underwrite transportation costs, according to a new report.

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood an-nounced last week he will take steps to try to further curb distracting driving activities such as text messaging or using a cell phone or a Global Positioning System device.

Trailer maker Wabash National Corp. lost $17.9 million during the second quarter — an improvement of more than $10 million from the year’s first three months, when it lost $28.3 million — and announced the completion of a deal with a private equity firm that will give it $35 million in new capital.

Maersk Line’s chassis rental fee went into effect at the Port of New York and New Jersey on Aug. 3, and although there were not any freight disruptions, the head of a trade group for drayage haulers said that the rollout could have gone smoother.

Soft drink and snack food maker PepsiCo Inc. said it will reacquire two bottling companies it spun off 10 years ago, spending $7.8 billion in cash and stock to create the largest private fleet in the United States and Canada, in an effort to make its supply chains more efficient.

Manufacturer ArvinMeritor Inc. said it lost $162 million in the April-to-June quarter, while also announcing last week it has found a buyer for its light-vehicle wheels business and has stepped up its marketing effort for truck disc and drum brakes ahead of the government’s new truck stopping-distance rule.

The selective catalytic reduction process that most engine manufacturers will use to comply with 2010 federal diesel emission standards could emit toxic byproducts, the California Air Resources Board’s top researcher wrote in a recent letter filed in federal court by Navistar Inc.